Smart, connected appliances for better lifestyles in Europe

During the conference, Paolo Falcioni will guide the audience through the multiple benefits that connected and smart appliances could bring to Europeans. Cutting-edge technology could be part of the solution to achieving better circularity, decrease energy and water bills substantially, add more comfort to our daily lives, save time and APPLiA will give concrete example to how this works in practice.

APPLiA’s Director-General will not only highlight what needs to be done to unlock the potential of smart and connected appliances, but also add evidence-based arguments responding to some widely-spread prejudice ideas about smart products.

Customer centric Flexible Energy business models in European comparison

Mosaik: simulation models to create large-scale Smart Grid scenarios

Smart grid research is a complex topic. Be it testing of new concepts and technologies, or analysis of system dynamics – a multi-domain view on the system is always needed. A common approach in simulation-based testing is co-simulation. Individually developed simulation tools from different experts are reused and coupled to simulate the system of systems, including the power grid, DER, ICT, markets and so on.

A co-simulation framework helps to organize the interfacing and data exchange between simulators. One of the most user friendly frameworks is the open-source software mosaik. In this workshop the capabilities and handling of mosaik will be presented, including a practical demonstration of potential applications.

The workshop is organised within the framework of H2020 project ERIGrid that deals with the integration of the European research infrastructure and smart grid systems technology development and validation.

Innovation and Aggregators

Our energy planning rarely takes the kind of holistic view required to see and measure the benefits of fuel switching from fossils to renewables. More specifically, our energy metrics don’t capture it very well. And so, unwittingly, our European or national policy may discourage it and/or has the wrong focus. Many public policies seek to promote energy efficiency, but energy efficiency isn’t precisely what we want. What we want is emission efficiency. There is a lot of debate about the challenges of the new energy landscape but there is also a lot of misinformation and misconception. Economic incentives influence our behavior much more than ideology. Whatever the perspectives, we need to deal with the introduction of vast amounts of renewable energy on Europe’s grids. As the Levelized Energy Costs have surpassed traditional energy it is time to speed up.

This presentation is about new utility business models, as consumers increasingly become prosumers. About the real economics of new energy. And about why and how aggregators can and should speed up the transition.

The Future of Flexibility is Fast and Distributed: a case study from Ireland

Grid systems are integrating more renewables, creating system volatility. Ireland, for example, has a goal of 75% non-synchronous generation on the grid at any time by 2020. Ireland also set a record for this on 9 April 2018, when it had 65% non-synchronous generation on the grid – the first power system in the world to do this.

Instantaneous stabilization of system frequency is becoming as important as ensuring long-term security of supply for decarbonizing grids. But this requires faster – near instantaneous – response. EirGrid (the TSO) in Ireland have answered this call with the May 2018 launch of their DS3 program. Will this still be a business opportunity for C&I? Absolutely, if the assets and technology are right.

EirGrid’s Fast Frequency Response (FFR) service in its DS3 program push the limits of technology in energy. The required data transmission speed is less than 20 milliseconds, with a 2 millisecond time synchronization. This is the fastest data transmission speed possible in the energy world!

Any business looking to invest in a fast-acting distributed energy resources should evaluate the opportunity for frequency response and factor this in to their energy strategy and management plans.

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Enel X is an innovative global business leading the transformation of the energy sector to an even more collaborative and connected New Power Economy. Enel X helps energy consumers around the world leverage smart, simple, and fast technologies that use energy in new ways, creating new opportunities from energy that drive progress. Enabling I&C to commercialise their individual flexibility in energy consumption is an important business activity of Enel X. Extending this concept to e-mobility charging solutions and intelligent urban infrastructure is also part of Enel X’s strategy. Welcome to the New Power Economy.

Flexible energy & local communities

With the emerging – and in some countries already started – decarbonization of residential building heating and hot water generation, heat pumps and electric heaters/boosters provide a valuable source of flexibility. This flexibility can be made available to offer local and system level services to markets and grid operators, while at the same time reducing energy costs for the building owners and/or tenants.

In this presentation, we will present a local community flexibility management platform – nicknamed Dynamic Coalition Manager – that is being developed and piloted in the FHP project. This Dynamic Coalition Manager interacts with a cluster of heat pumps and offers services to local DSOs and BRPs with the aggregated communal flexibility. Specifically, the individual buildings determine their own optimal consumption profile and flexibility and provide this information in an active Flexibility Trading interaction to the Dynamic Coalition Manager, rather than merely responding to traditional Demand Response requests. Such an active Flexibility Trading approach fully engages and empowers prosumers as truly active energy market participants, as envisaged in the 4th energy package.

Increased TSO-DSO coordination leading to innovations in market design and grid decision support

The increasing share of distributed energy resources in the distribution grid provides opportunities to use the resources for the overall benefit of both the TSO and the DSO to solve problems related to frequency control, congestion management, and voltage control. Consequently, coordination between system operators is needed to guarantee a safe, reliable, and cost-efficient use of flexibility-based services. Several possibilities exist to organize the coordination between TSOs and DSOs in the context of the provision of system services. Each model of coordination between TSO and DSO will result in different designs of the market for system services. In addition, dependent on the coordination model, new services could be delivered by the DSO in support of the TSO to facilitate the safe and secure exploitation of the grid.

The presentation will outline 5 different coordination schemes, developed within the H2020 project Smartnet. The implications of each coordination scheme for roles of system operators, grid operation and market functioning will be discussed. A selection of relevant services to be delivered by the DSO to the TSO will illustrate the challenges and opportunities faced by system operators in the context of increased coordination and interaction.

Smart charging strategies for EV-ready buildings

Two experts from EVConsult, specialized in the transition towards sustainable mobility and energy and focussing on smart charging infrastructure, will cover the advantages and value of different smart charging options, focussing on EV-ready buildings. The rising number of EVs causes an increasing demand for charging infrastructure, including at buildings such as office locations, distribution centers and shopping centers. This comes with challenges in relation to the efficient use of electricity, the avoidance of peak loads and investments in for instance transformer and grid upgrades.

Various smart charging options are available to minimize these challenges and optimize the number of EVs that can be charged on a daily basis. EVConsult will elaborate on these options and their value in the context of EV-ready buildings. These include: occupancy rate optimization, load balancing, dynamic load balancing, battery storage and V2G.

Reflex, EFI & Energy Flexibility

Part 1: Flexible Energy: Preventing lock-in is key.
You only have one change to start right: prevent lock in.

Device-manufacturer lock-in

Technology lock-in

Aggregator or utility lock-in

Energy Flexibility, it’s all we talk about during FLEXCON. But what is it exactly, and what can we do with it? And why? In this session we take a step back and take a look at different approaches, such as price signals, demand response and transactive energy. What is it they try to achieve? What do they have in common? What can we learn from them? We will show preventing that lock-in is key. If you really want to understand energy flexibility, attend this session!

Part 2: Doing it right: EFI & ReFlex
During this session two technologies of dealing with energy flexibility will be presented: The Energy Flexibility Interface (EFI), and ReFlex, a flexibility aggregation platform.

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EFI:
As of yet there is no standard interface to describe and control the energy flexibility of smart devices. The Energy Flexibility Interface, for short EFI, fills this gap and is specifically designed as a standard communication method between smart devices and Demand-Side Management (DSM) solutions.

EFI is developed by TNO to deal with interoperability issues encountered while experimenting and researching energy flexibility in field trials. It is a key enabling technology for the widespread deployment and adoption of Demand-Side Management to exploit energy flexibility. The interface specification of EFI is open and freely available.

ReFlex:
ReFlex is a software solution that empowers aggregators to create a powerful Virtual Power Plant. This VPP can utilize the flexibility of large quantities of (small) devices effectively for multiple purposes. This allows the flexibility of assets, such as: electric cars, batteries and solar panels, to be utilized in both energy markets as well as ancillary services markets. In this way the value of flexibility can be stacked. Because ReFlex is compatible with multiple open smart grid standards such as: EFI, USEF and OCPI it is easy to deploy in the operation of an aggregator.

The beating heart of ReFlex is the Flexibility Engine. This engine can provide detailed insight into the available flexibility in a cluster of connected assets. Furthermore it can analyze the consequence of dispatch choices. This forms the perfect aggregation tool for parties who want to exploit energy flexibility commercially for one or more purposes. ReFlex is currently developed in the Horizon2020 project Interflex, which is funded by the EU.

Distributed Ledger for the Smart Energy Transformation

Designed from scratch for the Internet of Things, the IOTA Tangle protocol aims at becoming the backbone for the Machine to Machine economy. With IOTA, connected devices and sensors will communicate peer to peer securely and trade real time without any transaction fees.

With a corporate ecosystem including multinationals such as Bosch, Volkswagen, Fujitsu, IOTA also acts as co-creation hub and enables radical business model innovation across all smart industries including mobility, energy, smart buildings, industry 4.0, smart cities, smart supply chain, eHealth and more. In the Energy 4.0 industry, IOTA is part of the cityxchange.eu EU funded project and grows a number of energy-related initiatives involving Power & Utilities, real estate and mobility.

This session will contain an IOTA + Smart Charging presentation that shows the demo we built at ElaadNL Smart Charging & Open ChargePoint Protocol OCPP.

NODES & Energy Flexibility

Part 1: How to close the flexibility gap in the future power system (Jan Pedersen, AE)
Agder Energi, a Norwegian renewable utility group, has been running its flexibility program since 2016. Jan Pedersen will present some of Agder Energi’s thoughts on requirements for the future power system in order to close the flexibility gap. Why does the future market need to be designed bottom up? What does the DSO need in order to use flexibility locally?

Part 2: NODES – Market design for an integrated marketplace for local flexibility (Hallstein Hagen, NODES)
Hallstein Hagen will present NODES market design, a market design that does not lock you in to one platform, one aggregator, one buyer or one technical solution. NODES is a European Independent Market Operator that offers an integrated marketplace for local flexibility. NODES is an open and transparent marketplace. NODES unlock the true value of flexibility. NODES market design allows microgrids, aggregators and BRPs to trade flexibility with local DSOs and TSO. NODES is designed with a clear definition of roles. NODES offer integration both on the horizontal level from the flexibility asset to the grid company, and on vertical level from low voltage to the transmission grid.

NODES is a European Independent Market Operator that offers NODESmarket a marketplace for local flexibility. NODESmarket is an open and transparent marketplace. NODES unlocks the true value of flexibility.

Unlock (aggregated) demand response and storage in Europe

Decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation disrupt Europe’s electricity markets. While current regulation still struggles to fully integrate spot markets and balancing reserves, more and more non-market-based and costly mechanisms are deployed in several Member States to cope with challenges such as congestion management and demand-supply adequacy. Meanwhile, flexibility potential from (aggregated) demand response and storage remains largely untapped, due to lacking reform efforts, denial of market access and regulatory uncertainties. It is time for Europe to put demand response as well as storage on equal footing with generation, and create a modern electricity market design compatible with the energy transition.

REstore is leading the new, distributed energy world forward. Since 2010 our patented algorithms and real-time solution platform is used by more than 150 large factories and a growing number of households, generating new revenue streams for customers while lowering carbon footprint. FlexPond™ pools residential and industrial devices, batteries, CHPs and other resources into virtual power plants which maintain balance on the power grid. Since November 2017 REstore became part of the Centrica’s Distributed Energy & Power division. REstore has offices in Antwerp, Düsseldorf, London, Paris and San Francisco.

Mindsphere workshop

A decreasing numbers of technicians and an increasing complexity of our distribution network and deadline 2030 is coming closer. How are we going to manage this?

What does flexibility mean for your hardware? In this session we are going to take a look at how you can get data out of your electrical assets and why you should do that.

Siemens has a clear vision on connecting electric assets as well as non-electric assets and prepares their product portfolio to be ready for the future. MindSphere will be the platform to analyze, compare and share your data, but why would you choose MindSphere while there are so many other platforms available? MindSphere connects real things to the digital world and provides powerful industry applications and digital services to help drive business success. Let sensors be the eyes and ears of your assets.

The smartEn Map – Balancing Markets Edition

smartEn is launching its latest report on Balancing Markets and access conditions for smart energy solutions. This 2018 edition is the first of the new series of smartEn flagship publications, mapping the market environment for smart energy solutions in European countries. Building on the former SEDC Demand Response Maps, the new generation of smartEn Maps is zooming in on specific topics, starting with Balancing Markets.

The presentation will give an overview of market conditions, barriers and enablers for decentralised energy resources and Demand Response (DER and DR) in European countries today. The most recent trends and best practices, but also barriers and bottlenecks are portrayed in a comparison of national market frameworks. Participants will have the opportunity to obtain their own copy of the new smartEn report.

Blockchain, energy communities, and grid-connected microgrids

Philip Gladek, Spectral’s CEO / CTO will be presenting about how data-driven, smart energy solutions, combined with new policies and emerging market roles, are likely to shape the future of the European energy sector. The focus will be on identifying key opportunities for shifting towards new market paradigms, presenting how Spectral’s mission-driven strategy for development of smart energy technologies aims to disrupt existing market models and accelerate the evolution of our sustainable energy system. The presentation will cover several core topics, zooming-in on a selection of Spectral’s projects, including:

How integrated thermal and electrical microgrids can be deployed to yield highly positive business cases

How self-managing, smart buildings are becoming a critical feature for the energy transition

How energy communities are making the role of the traditional energy supplier obsolete

How blockchain technology is deployed to support the emergence of new (local) market mechanisms

How can a industrial energy system, like the port of Amsterdam, be organized as autonomous, sustainable and local as possible? How can local players transparently negotiate, exchange and remunerate (information about) their energy supplies and demands? What market rules would lead to fair cooperation and optimal use of local resources?

Port of Amsterdam, OneUp and Technolution are setting up a fun and insightful showcase in the Prodock innovation lab. Fritzy (a fridge), Sunny (a solar installation), Batsy (a battery storage) and Netty (a grid connection) are real autonomous players in a demonstration playground. Each friend has its own agent based logic, they communicate via social media and of course they are inclusive for new friends through open interfaces: Ethereum smart contracts and the Energy Flexibility Interface (EFI).

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The energy system towards 2030 & How pricing can create win-win in congestion management

With the the increasing volume of variable renewable generation, the demand for flexibility will grow over the coming decades in three main area: portfolio balancing by market parties, system balancing by the TSO and congestion management by TSO and DSOs. Of these, the volume of flexibility required for portfolio balancing will be significantly greater than the other two. Therefore, while system balancing and congestion management are important elements in a robust electricity system, an efficient market model has to be facilitate portfolio balancing by market parties first of all. Next, it is important that the growing pool of flexibility sources that enters this market, also becomes fully available to be leveraged to meet the demand for system balancing and congestion management.

Secondly, while flexible conventional generation is a major supplier of flexibility today, the growing demand for flexibility has to be met while CO2 emissions have to be reduced. Fortunately, there are new potential sources of flexibility that can be unlocked by the market to achieve this. For instance, these may come from demand response associated with electrification of industry, heating and transport, or from energy storage. Investment in these technologies as well as suitable commercial arrangements between consumers (large and small) and market parties are therefore essential. With the likely increase in variability of electricity prices in the wholesale markets, this flexibility becomes both a means for consumers to optimise their electricity bill and an essential building block for a cost-effective electricity system with a high % of variable renewable generation.

How pricing can create win-win in congestion management

Both transmission and distribution networks may be confronted with an increasing risk of congestion, as both renewable generation and new electrification of demand can develop rapidly. While TSOs and DSOs will continue to invest in additional infrastructure to enable the energy transition, there is also a need for tools to efficiently handle any congestions that may occur. In principle, bids by market parties on power exchanges can be leveraged for this, if the location of the corresponding resources is appropriate.

Stedin, Alliander, TenneT and ETPA are working together in the Congestion Spreads pilot project with the aim to leverage bids from the liquidity available at existing intra-day power exchanges, while coordinating these congestion management actions. For this purpose, TSO and DSOs are jointly developing an IT platform where they flag their respective congestion cases. This Congestion Spread platform will provide a means for cost effectively managing grid congestion, while at the same time coordinating the actions of TSO and DSO so that negative impacts are avoided on congestion in other parts of the grid.

This platform will seek for each such congestion the most cost-effective combination of suitable bids on offer from the power exchanges. For this, market parties are invited on a voluntary basis to add location information to their bids at the power exchange. The resulting transaction always comprises two matching bids from market parties that have not cleared in the regular market due to diverging prices. The TSO or DSO facilitates this transaction between market parties by only paying for the price difference (“spread”) without adopting an energy position in the market itself.

Flexibilisation mechanisms in times of oversupply or excess-demand of energy

During Flexcon 2018 TKI Urban Energy will organize a workshop in collaboration with RVO. The topic will be a report, drawn up on behalf of TKI Urban Energy, on “flexibilisation mechanisms”. The report deals with flexibility requirements on future electricity markets to face excess-demand (for example during a “dunkelflaute” with limited input from wind and solar PV) and to face oversupply. And it deals with flexibility to manage grid congestions. The report concludes with chances to provide flexibility in the built environment with distributed flexibility devices and tariff structures for electricity and use of the grid.

TKI Urban Energy finances investments in and research into energy innovations in the field of solar technology, smart grids, heat pumps and measures that lead to reduction and sustainability of energy consumption, and a fast transition to a sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy system in the urban environment and infrastructure in the Netherlands.

Scale IoT and Flexibility in energy markets and make citizens benefit

So far neither IoT deployments nor Smart Grid pilots have been delivering against the promises described in tons of Powerpoint presentations or Gartner reports.

Within the last years, the main communality between all smart grid pilots that aimed to integrate flexibility on DSO level by using IoT have delivered good technical outcome in the defined scope. The communality on the downside of the projects are – they do not scale at all.

Barriers for scaling are seeded in the basic paradigm of data acquisition and handling in the projects – setting up IoT but leaving the governance of data and settlement with a natural monopoly does not set right incentives for making end users invest in sufficiently secure and reliable IoT technology. In order to get to a functioning market for flexibility or other data-driven services, we must ask ourselves basic questions like: Is managing data part of a natural monopoly activity? How can we trust the data coming from “behind” the meter once you can monetize on it? Is regulation determining the availability of data for services by allowing monopolies to run their own communication infrastructure?

Are the German or British way of setting up metering infrastructure guiding the way to a more flexible future?

Thomas will furthermore discuss why there cannot be an Uber or Google that simply takes over the flexibility management for the sake of the energy system (…and maybe we are all happy that this might not happen….).

Assessing the benefits of DR for all

Voltalis is the largest European aggregator for both commercial and residential consumers, with more than 10 billion shedding orders sent to 1 million appliances, to deliver demand response, first in France, and now in several other countries worldwide.

Experience shows that such DR benefits directly the participating consumers, by saving energy for them, providing them real time detailed information – and altogether reducing their bills. However, overall benefits for other participants are far greater: flexibility offered by some is highly valuable to all.

The presentation will share this experience, provide numbers, and suggest practical market design approaches to demand response participation, as an alternative to generation, in order to benefit all suppliers via the market, and all consumers.

Thus will DR contribute to the energy transition on the large scale expected and deliver tremendous value to all Europeans.

Using a flex market and variable capacity: Obtaining flexibility to prevent congestion

Local energy communities

The Decentralized Autonomous Area Agent (D3A) is a blockchain-based, distributed energy market framework developed by Grid Singularity for the Energy Web Foundation, with the objective of supporting the EWF mission to enable a decarbonized, decentralized, democratized and digitized energy system. D3A offers modular, plug-and-play agent software for smart-devices and smart-meters. Within a communications network, device agents interact with local energy markets on the EWF blockchain.

The Layered Energy System (LES) is a local electricity market concept developed by Stedin and Energy21 where smart devices across a neighborhood of houses collaborate at the local level. First to balance electricity supply and demand, before turning more widely to the grid to buy and sell energy and grid services. A pilot with a blockchain-based solution for LES is realized in the Stedin grid with 14 participating households.

We will overlap two projects, compare two different methodologies: the bottom’s-up framework and the real world pilot; identify challenges, opportunities and findings. We open the floor for a debate on vision for transactive energy, D3A on Tobalaba simulation, customer business case and engagement, and main challenges to get devices prepared for participating in distributed energy markets.

French market for Flexibility in general and for DR in particular is characterized by a strong State intervention and the development of market products dedicated to Demand Response whereas Germany exclusively relies on energy markets to use and develop flexibility (if relevant from an economic point of view). While the need for more flexibility to ensure the energy transition is no longer questioned, how can we ensure a consistent European-wide development of flexibility ?

Supporting the energy transition through local energy management, aggregation and virtual power plants

Entelios is a leading demand response aggregator for industrial loads, storage and decentral generation. Entelios identifies flexible assets, connects and pre-qualifies them and places their flexibility optimally across all relevant flexibility markets, including all types of balancing reserve markets and the spot and intraday power markets. Entelios operates a 24/7 highly reliable and robust realtime system, pooling more than 1 GW of flexible assets across a number of energy intensive industries.

Cross Market Optimisation of Flexible Assets in Virtual Power Plants

Flexibility can be monetarised in different markets of which reserve markets and short term power markets are the most important

Optimisation is complex since several technical and operational restrictions have to be considered and there is a trade-off in optimisation for the different markets

Cross market optimisation is carried out by a system consisting of a virtual power plant platform, a dynamic optimisation software, and automated intraday-trading

As a result, optimised schedules for flexible assets are generated every 15 min and automatically downloaded to the decentralised plants

BayWa r.e. is a leading global renewable energy developer, service supplier, wholesaler and energy solutions provider. It has operations throughout Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific and are strategically investing in new and emerging markets. BayWa r.e. Clean Energy Sourcing GmbH (CLENS) is part of the BayWa r.e. Group since 2017 and one of the leading direct marketer, green energy supplier and flexibility manager in Germany.

The Demand Response Control System (DRCS) provides the Distribution System Operator (DSO) or Transmission System Operator (TSO) a tool for decreasing the demand for electricity in the times of high network loads or low supply of electrical energy. DRCS provides metering data aggregation, load forecasts and Demand Response (DR) potential forecasts. It also provides the execution of DR actions (shutting of certain electrical loads) by notifying customers and utilizing load control devices installed at households. Integration of DRCS system with the Advanced Distribution Management System (DMS) and Metering Data management System (MDMS) using CIM ESB as an integration platform.

Enabling Industry 4.0 to play an active role in grid balancing

Sympower will present a case study on how industrial distributed assets can provide aFRR in the Netherlands.

This case study falls under the scope of a pilot launched by Dutch grid operator TenneT. At the moment, aFRR is mainly provided by conventional power plants, but the future of the energy landscape is changing and new solutions are needed. TenneT initiated the pilot to involve market players such as Sympower in investigating how distributed energy loads such as flexible industrial generation and consumption loads can supply aFRR in particular, and what the implications are for the market specifications and the technology currently used.

Solar Powered Electric Vehicle

Lightyear is developing the first commercial, native solar-electric car in the world. It’s a solar-powered and plugin electric family car. Lightyear will share it’s vision on electric vehicle, electric driving and smart EV charging.

What is lightyear?
Lightyear is developed as Solar Vehicle, not as ‘EV with solar cells’. Therefore, a lot of attention has been given to low weight, electric efficiency and aerodynamics. The aim is to make charging a Lightyear car via solar energy faster than normal EVs via the grid.

The Lightyear can operate on the combination of Solar Energy and regular grid infrastructure. This makes Lightyear independent from special EV charging infrastructure and able to enter markets where EV infrastructure is not yet (fully) developed. Charging a Lightyear One on a regular power socket is comparable with charging comparable EV’s on a special charging infrastructure.

The car has a range of 800 km and can drive up to 20,000 km per year, purely on solar power, depending of course on the amount of sunshine on your location.

Local Energy Markets and Communities

N-SIDE and Centrica are developing a Local Energy Market platform including state-of-the-art market clearing algorithms. This platform enables unlocking the potential of flexible solutions available at distribution level to support the paradigm shift the energy landscape is experiencing today.

Through this presentation, N-SIDE and Centrica will give some insights on the different features of this Local Energy Market and highlight the large scale pilot currently ongoing in the UK with Western Power Distribution (DSO) and National Grid (TSO).
Both speakers will explain how this modular platform can easily be scaled up to any other regions in the world.

N-SIDE is an innovative software consulting company in advanced analytics designing optimization solutions for Supply Chain, Operations and Energy management. N-SIDE cloud-based custom solutions use technologies such as machine learning and powerful algorithms to solve complex industry challenges and turn them into opportunities.

N-SIDE helps organizations with agility and data-driven decisions to optimize processes and use resources wisely while efficiently managing risk and maximizing profits. N-SIDE optimizes decisions of some of the largest companies around the world, across a vast range of industries: Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Steel, Pulp & Paper, Power Exchanges, TSO’s and DSO’s, etc. To learn more about N-SIDE solutions and services, visit www.n-side.com

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Local flexibility markets

The development of intermittent renewable energy sources and the decentralization of the sector in general create new challenges for the power system, namely increased grid congestions and a growing need for the efficient usage of flexibility. At the same time, information technologies evolve and become new tools to overcome these challenges, alongside emerging decentralized and flexible power resources. Making these resources available to system operators is key to tackling congestion.

In this context, EPEX SPOT has been pioneering the design of these new markets and will introduce its first Local Flexibility Markets soon. They offer an open and voluntary market-based congestion management marketplace, efficiently centralizing local flexibility offers with physical impact, that can be used by TSOs and DSOs to proactively alleviate congestions. EPEX SPOT will provide the platform and act as a neutral intermediary between flexibility demand from system operators and flexibility supply from flexible assets. The Exchange will also supervise price formation and guarantee a high level of transparency. The ambition is to create new opportunities:

for market participants to value their flexible assets;

for system operators to avoid or defer costly grid expansion and allow for a higher reliability, security of supply and a higher degree of coordination.

The price signals emerging from these markets will create a new economic space with new opportunities, driving forward the development of flexible resources in the grid.

Flexibility in practice – Wildpoldsried Microgrid

In Europe, ambitious targets for renewables and emissions reduction as well steady penetration of e-mobility are literally transforming the energy system as we know it. This makes flexibility a precious resource. In the second part of the workshop, we will present how in Wildpoldsried, Siemens worked with the community and applied its technology to successfully tackle the challenges posed by the energy transition.

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Flexcon2018 Closing

A smart-grid project in Rotterdam where a fleet of 160 electric vehicles and a stationary battery are connected and smart-charged to help balance the grid. The project is a joint effort between online supermarket Picnic, technical service provider Engie and smart software provider Dexter Energy Services.